Call for Papers 6th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Aberdeen, Scotland, UK 4-7 September 2002 http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/eccbr2002/ ECCBR 2002 is the 6th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning. This four-day conference will be held at The Robert Gordon University in Scotland's granite city, Aberdeen. The program will start with the ECCBR Industry Day and workshops, followed by the three day conference of invited talks, presentations and posters on both theoretical and applied research in CBR. Announcements concerning these events will be posted at the website. Submission Topics: The ECCBR'02 Program Committee invites submissions of original research and application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning. Example submission areas include, but are not limited to: * CBR system design issues (e.g.,indexing, retrieval, similarity assessment, and adaptation) * Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, modeling, visualisation, maintenance, and management for CBR * System architectures and integration of CBR with other methods * Collaborative CBR * Learning and knowledge acquisition for CBR knowledge containers * Analogical reasoning, and creative reasoning approaches based on CBR * CBR-related areas (e.g., corporate memories, decision support, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, data mining, software reuse and engineering redesign) * Lazy learning, instance-based learning, and case-based learning * Applications of CBR (e.g., customisation and personalisation, education, e-commerce, pattern recognition, image processing, knowledge management, manufacturing, medicine, web technologies, planning and scheduling) * Formal, empirical, and psychological evaluations of CBR models * Methodologies for developing CBR applications Papers may be accepted for presentation as talks, as part of a panel, or as posters. Proceedings: All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Review Criteria: Submissions must be identified as either *research* or *application* papers and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to their category. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, potential to lead to more powerful technology, technical quality, and clarity. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 22nd March 2002 Notification of acceptance: 13th May 2002 Camera ready copy due: 3rd June 2002 Submission Procedure: Authors must submit a full paper plus a title page by the end of 22nd March 2001. The title page must include: name(s) of the author(s); name, address, phone and fax number, and email of the contact person; title and abstract of the paper; a set of keywords; a statement whether the submission is to be reviewed as a "research" paper or an "application" paper. Full papers and title pages may be submitted in either of two ways: 1. Electronically, as a Postscript or PDF file submitted by FTP via the ECCBR'02 website (http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/eccbr2002/submit.html). This is the preferred mode of submission. 2. Electronically, as a Postscript or PDF file emailed to eccbr2002-submit@scms.rgu.ac.uk Note: Since Springer's LNCS/LNAI series is now published in parallel in both paper and electronic formats all papers submitted to ECCBR'02 must be submitted in electronic format. Submission Format: Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 15 pages. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All authors of accepted papers must transfer their copyrights to Springer. Multiple Submission Policy: Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this fact on the title page. If a paper will appear in another conference or journal, it must be withdrawn from ECCBR'02 before 3rd May 2002. This restriction does not apply to papers appearing in proceedings of specialized workshops. Author Registration Policy: In order for a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy (3rd June 2002). Conference Information: All information regarding ECCBR'02 will be maintained at the conference website: http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/eccbr2002/. Conference Chairs: Susan Craw (The Robert Gordon University) s.craw@scms.rgu.ac.uk Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen) apreece@csd.abdn.ac.uk Local Arrangements: Nirmalie Wiratunga (The Robert Gordon University) nw@scms.rgu.ac.uk Industry Day Chair: Robert Milne (Intelligent Applications Limited) rmilne@bcs.org.uk Program Committee Members: Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory Robert Aarts, Nokia, Finland Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Ralph Bergmann, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Enrico Blanzieri, Universita' di Torino, Italy Derek Bridge, University College, Cork, Ireland Padraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Boi Faltings, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Mehmet H. G÷ker, Kaidara Software Inc., USA Pedro A. Gonzalez Calero, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jacek Jarmulak, Ingenuity Inc, USA David Leake, Indiana University, USA Brian Lees, University of Paisley, UK Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Michel Manago, Kaidara, France David McSherry, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Bart Netten, TNO TPD, Netherlands Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Luigi Portinale, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Michael M. Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Rainer Schmidt, University of Rostock, Germany Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland Maarten van Someren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jerzy Surma, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland Brigitte Trousse, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Ian Watson, AI-CBR University of Aukland, New Zealand Stephan Wess, empolis knowledge management David C. Wilson, University College Dublin, Ireland Nirmalie Wiratunga, The Robert Gordon University, UK